journal article
http://navigator-bloomu.passhe.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&AN=85221658&site=ehost-live&scope=site

-credible sources
-headings
-title
-keywords
-transitions
-quotes
-statistics
-purpose is clear
-intro, body, conclusion
-supporting evidence
-some have graphics for support-graphs, charts, pictures

diary entry
http://sexualityinart.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-last-entry-in-the-diary-of-anne-frank/

-first person
-hear the writer's voice
-express emotion
-detailed
-dated
-informal
-personal
-imagery